Chokecherry Canyon Murders and Farmington's Navajo Protests of 1974

The Broken Circle by Rodney Barker "As gripping a true-crime book as you're likely to read all year....Read[s] almost as if [it] had been written by Tony Hillerman." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES In Farmington, New Mexico, a town that borders a Navajo reservation, the tensions between whites and Native Americans reached an all-time high in 1974, when three white teenagers brutally tortured three helpless victims to death. Their punishment by the court was light, but in this extraordinary true-crime story, the curses of the Navajo on the boys may have wrought justice where the laws of the white man would not....

The Farmington Report by New Mexico Advisory Committee To The U.S. Commission On Civil Rights This is the 30 year update to the report "The Farmington Report: A Conflict of Cultures."In 1974, in response to the brutal murder of three Navajo youths and numerous complaints from Navajo leaders concerning unequal protection and enforcement of the laws, the Advisory Committee undertook an intensive study of the social and economic relationships between the City of Farmington and the County of San Juan and the Navajos living in the community and in the adjoining reservation. 30 years later, the New Mexico Advisory Committee returned to the area to learn of changes in relationships between Farmington and San Juan County and the Navajos living in the community and in the adjoining reservation. The Committee found that there has been improvement with respect to the equal protection and enforcement of laws for Native Americans. Problems continue to persist; however, and these are addressed in this report.

The Farmington report : a conflict of cultures : a report of the New Mexico Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. by United States Commission on Civil Rights. New Mexico Advisory Committee.